Moonlight Graham

So the electorate holds a veto against the rule of law? LOL. Good thing the electorate don't all have law degrees. The Democrats need to soul search and figure out why voters elected instead of them a wannabe authoritarian dictator and clear felon with little regard for the constitution or democracy when his power is at risk. The bar wasn't very high and they lost LOL.

The GOP are filled with loons and knuckle-draggers and have been for decades (loons and knuckle-draggers will disagree with me here). But the Democrats are putting up an alternative so bland, weak, and corrupt that the American voter has been waffling back and forth between these crappy parties. The GOP at least projects strength, which Americans like. They'd rather go down guns blazing than with a wimper. Western universities are producing systems of thought that preach self-loathing and guilt and values that say protecting people's feelings are more important than truth, expression, and free debate. As more younger generations go through the education system the Democrats will keep leaning that way until something in the culture changes. This ideology is so stupid that they don't realize they're inadvertently red-pilling most people who don't hate themselves (their race, gender, country etc) and creating their own opposition because this bullsh*t needs to be stopped. They'll even vote for a fascist-lite sex offender ****** to do it.

I'd rather be led by a slimy arsehole than a slimy wimp. Churchill > Chamberlain

I think they should just shut the Liberal Party down forever and everyone in the party right now should retire. I'm not jumping at the chance to put some rich Goldman Sachs/Brookfield banker like Carney in as PM. Nobody even knows anything about the guy or his views or vision for the country. He can be Finance Minister or something. I want a PM who has the courage to do the right thing and make the tough decisions without worrying about who might be offended. Let's start putting the truth and Canada's national interests over people's feelings. This country needs to grow some balls.

1. My sense is Canada slowly became a nation through shared hardships we got through together like War of 1812, US Civil War (leading to Confederation), WWI and WW2, and thus we asserted our independence from Britain, made our own flag, national anthem, citizenship etc. Then some Quebecois flipped Canada the bird and some don't consider themselves "Canadian". Maybe most of us are multiculturalists, like I'm anglo-Canadian, then there's French-Canadian, Inuit-Canada, Punjabi-Canadian etc. But when sh*t hits the fan, we're either Canadian or we aren't. We're all on the same team, except those that aren't. And if they aren't, and act against the national interests in favour of their own sub-nation or foreign nation, then they're an enemy. Just look at Dougie LOL. Yes there's sometimes sub-nations within a larger nation. This can cause problems if sub-nations fight for political dominance or one represses the other. So where do you fall on my poll? 2. Borders change, but some Ukrainians still consider themselves Russian. That leads to problems. 3. A state will fold if people aren't willing to defend it and they have stronger allegiances elsewhere. People have to unite around something. A central government has uses, like security and military, foreign trade etc. They can also foster a sense of unity from all regions via nationalism. That's a reason we have a flag and a national anthem. 4. Did Italians all speak Italian before unification? Who knows. In Canada we speak English and French. There's hardly anything more divisive than language because if we can't even communicate with each other we're not going to interact very much, and will do so poorly. We'll just stick to "our own". "Good or bad" is a value judgment, and sometimes necessary. Sitting on the fence means everyone else decides our lives for us. 5. If I feel things about my country, our history, our flag etc and seek to defend it then you're wrong. "Canada" is a team, which means its a nation. If sh*t hits the fan and we go to war with e.g. Iran, and some Canadians are more "Team Iran" than "Team Canada" then we can have some problems. Some in Quebec are much more loyal to Quebec than Canada. We've done a lot to include them on the team but some just have their own allegiances.

Need a source on this "theme". They want a Caliphate from what I see.

The POTUS can only send the military into war with the approval of Congress. The GOP only have 5 more seats in the House than the Dems, 220 to 215 seats. So if only 3 anti-Trump Republicans in the House disagree with Trump and side with the Dems he can't attack any western country.

"BREAKING: President Trump just announced that he will place massive tariffs on Denmark if they don't immediately relinquish all control of Greenland." When did he say this? Didn't he say in the video that if Greenlanders move to America he'll place massive tarrifs on Denmark?

I'll go with the Associated Press over rightwing twitter conspiracies.

You realize the S. Korean President is a crook trying to cling to power, right? You know, like Trump did, with all the "stop the steal" lies and trying to get Pence to count his fake electors. I don't know the legality of Yoon's arrest warrant. But he refused a summons to appear re: his martial law declaration. Seems he declared martial law because his party lost the legislature in the March election so he can't get his agenda passed. He also had a low-20's approval rating in Nov before this whole thing began, which is lower than Trudeau's, and he and his wife are caught up in a bunch of scandals. He's an authoritarian and seems like he just cooked up some scare-tactic BS with the North Koreans to legitimate his power-grab. Since he and Trump like to subvert democracy to try to cling to power maybe they could be pen pals while they're both in jail.

This is a glorious day for Canada. Shame on Canadian voters, the NDP, and fellow Liberal MP's for keeping this guy in power so long. Now we have to wait months for a Liberal leadership race, then an election cycle. Uhg. Will the Liberals prorogue to avoid a non-confidence vote? That's the question. I assume the NDP will likely use this resignation as an excuse to not bring down the government and maintain their legislative power. And will the electoral interference issue (and MP's allegedly involved) be cleared up before the next election? Democracy is at stake.

If Biden/Dems wanted to shoot Trump they might want to hire a guy with a military background instead of a career criminal who sucked at criminality.

I don't believe Trump will invade the US, he's a blow-hard. WWI and WWII significantly increases national pride in Canada. WWI led to the Statute of Westminster and WWII led to the creation of Canadian citizenship, our own flag, and our own Crown (Canadian vs British). Look at how 9/11 united the USA.

I miss glasses-era PP, as featured in this video.

His department at the university have defended him and seem clearly in his corner. Even Amnesty International are vouching for him. If I get more time I may look further into this case. It seems interesting.

Biological male I guess I meant.

I've never seen a university instructor teach a course about his own legal defense, very odd. Interesting case too. More news about this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/diab-verdict-in-absentia-1.6817944 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Paris_synagogue_bombing

This is wild... Lebanese-born man allegedly bombs a synagogue in Paris in 1980. A Canadian citizen since 1993, he's extradited by Canada to France in 2014 for trial. In 2018 a French judge drops the charge & Diab is released but 2 days later returns to Canada with help from Canadian officials after being ordered to stay in France during appeals, then in 2023 the highest French appeals court finds him guilty, sentencing him to life in prison & issuing an international warrant. He's now a sociology instructor at Carleton University in Ottawa teaching a course about....himself...called "SOCIAL JUSTICE IN ACTION"., studying "the relationship between abuse of power and miscarriages of justice" and to "Critically examine Canada’s Extradition Law and its shortcomings". Students focus on a case study (himself) and in his course syllabus he points to his own website https://www.justiceforhassandiab.org/ for students to study. The syllabus: https://carleton.ca/socanth/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/202430_SOCI3170A_Hassan-Diab.pdf

There was a young man with long hair, lipstick, and earrings who took my order inside McDonald's a few months ago. I threw my fries at him and ran away. The first sentence was true, the 2nd sentence was a lie.

Police say they don't believe he was acting alone. They seemed to have confirmed he was inspired by ISIS and had the ISIS flag one the back of his truck. Possibly a copycat type thing from the Germany crowd car attack? He probably would have liked to have killed on Xmas day, but everyone's typically inside. New Years is an obvious easier target. He was probably an extremists and the motivation probably had something to do with Gaza. Pro-Palestine protestors were out marching on NYE and boxing day.

The left believes the government should force us to all to pay taxes in order to provide these things through the government. Jesus never said this, as helping was voluntary. He therefore wasn't a communist. Its much easier to give money to the poor when its not your money. I think there's stats or polls showing religious people give more to charity. Jesus believes in the leftwing notion of income and power equality over hierarchy but went about it much differently. So Jesus was a kind of a social justice libertarian and anti-greed, anti-violence. He probably also didn't believe in abortion or sex before marriage or divorce, and who knows about LGBT stuff. So he's kind of half left, half right.

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Lived a long life. Seemed like a nice man. Too nice for politics. RIP

I hope we're done with naive idealism for a while. I really dislike the current government's constant pandering and virtue signaling while everyone else is ignored. We need plain talk and realistic hope.